#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Is map really faster then foreach?
#

use Benchmark qw( cmpthese timethese);
use warnings;
use strict;

my @array = `cat /usr/share/dict/linux.words`;

sub for_loop { 
   for (@array){
      print STDERR $_;
   }
}

sub foreach_loop { 
   foreach my $line (@array){
      print STDERR $line;
   } 
}

sub map_loop { 
   map { print STDERR $_ } @array;   
}

timethese (-30, {     # number indicates seconds to run the test for (-5 is 5seconds) or total test runs to do (if number +)
   'foreach method'  => sub { foreach_loop()  },
   'for method'  => sub { for_loop()  },
   'map method' => sub { map_loop() }, 
});